City planners' information seeking behavior: Information channels used and information types needed in varying types of perceived work tasks

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 176, Issue , 2006, Pages 42-45

  Serola, Sami ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Documentation; Human factors

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION THEORY;

DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN FACTORS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 34547275810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1164820.1164831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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